The Doctor takes Hannah to 1919 New Orleans, and not just to enjoy an oyster loaf. He is checking up on ‘Mr. Oldfield’, a retired Time Lord living in married seclusion in Tremé. Oldfield is a picture of carefree bonhomie, but his wife Collette’s barely concealed dread betrays that all is not as it seems.

The locals fear that the Oldfields’ house is haunted—and Hannah soon comes to believe it when a zombie-like travesty, seemingly incarnated from Collette’s nightmares, pursues them in the night. The Doctor, meanwhile, is dogged by a mysterious woman from another time, who has heard rumours of a devastating weapon hidden in this time period. These occurrences are all somehow connected to the seemingly benign Oldfield.

To uncover the truth, the Doctor must explore Oldfield’s memories, which expose the terrible price he paid for his present happiness—and the impossibility of escaping his past.

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